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Fridley couple plead guilty for making 12-year-old daughter run down street in diaper

By Rachael Krauserkrause@pioneerpress.com

Posted:
10/30/2012 12:01:00 AM CDT

Updated:
10/30/2012 03:35:40 PM CDT

Stephanie Ann Broten ( Courtesy of Anoka County Sheriff's office)

A Fridley couple accused of shaving their 12-year-old daughter's head and forcing her to run up and down the street in a diaper have pleaded guilty to charges of malicious punishment of a child.

The girl was "hysterically crying" when police found her wearing only a diaper and a tank top while running laps of the 1300 block of 68th Avenue Northeast in Fridley on May 7, according to the Anoka County criminal complaints.

Stephanie Ann Broten, 38, and her husband Darnell Alan Landrum, 34, admitted to shaving the girl's head and forcing her to do "diaper duty" after getting a bad grade in school, according to the Anoka County Attorney's Office.

The girl told police this was the third time she'd done "diaper duty".

Darnell Alan Landrum (Courtesy of Anoka County Sheriff's office)

Broten pleaded guilty to a charge of malicious punishment of a child last week. She is scheduled to be sentenced on Nov. 14.

Landrum pleaded guilty Monday to aiding and abetting malicious punishment of a child. In a separate incident, he also pleaded guilty to a 2010 charge of domestic assault. He will be sentenced for both on Nov. 21.